Category: Residential

The Sail @ Marina | NBBJ

The Sail @ Marina | NBBJ

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| April 5, 2010 | 1 Comment

The Sail @ Marina Bay by NBBJ is the mixed-use building comprising apartment units, several restaurants, health clubs, recreation decks with pools and tennis courts, and parking. As the 10th largest residential high-rise in the world, and the largest high-rise in Singapore, the Sail @ Marina Bay has become Singapore’s newest city icon. It carves [...]

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Amsterdam 235 | JSª

Amsterdam 235 | JSª

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| April 4, 2010 | 0 Comments

Mexican architectural office JSª has completed the Amsterdam 235 in Mexico. The project consists in the intervention in an old Art Deco house, catalogued by the National Institute of Beaux Arts. The new interpretation of the house was delivered by its formal arrangement, randomized window pattern with textures and colors, as well as clean detailing. [...]

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Krueck & Sexton Architects Restores 860-880 Lake Shore Drive

Krueck & Sexton Architects Restores 860-880 Lake Shore Drive

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| March 3, 2010 | 0 Comments

Architects Krueck & Sexton has completed restoring 860-880 Lake Shore Drive which was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1951. Widely recognized as one of the 20th Century’s most iconic residential projects, 860-880 Lake Shore Drive consists of two 26-story rectangular condominium buildings surrounded by an irregular travertine plaza. The steel and glass [...]

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79 Logements PLUS | Badia Berger architects

79 Logements PLUS | Badia Berger architects

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| March 1, 2010 | 0 Comments

Paris-based architectural firm Badia Berger architects has designed the 79 Logements PLUS located in Seine Left Bank Urban Development Zone Paris 13th Arrondissement, France. The facades overlooking the public space are calm, light and simple, in contrast to the domestic setting of the inside of the block, which is expressed by colours, external extensions, materials [...]

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SD Residence | Tissellistudioarchitetti

SD Residence | Tissellistudioarchitetti

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| February 5, 2010 | 0 Comments

Italian architectural firm Tissellistudioarchitetti has completed a residential building with 28 flats located in Cesena (FC)-Italy. The clean and strong elevational statement features double ‘C’ interlocked each other which emphasized by contrast colors, giving a strong architectural identity within the context. + Project description courtesy of Tissellistudioarchitetti The aim of the project was to revitalize [...]

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A crystalline landmark for Helsingborg | Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

A crystalline landmark for Helsingborg | Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

Category: Architecture, Hotel, Master Plan, Mixed Use, Residential, Selected Tags: , , , , ,
| February 2, 2010 | 0 Comments

In Sweden, Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects‘s winning project aims to create a crystalline landmark for Helsingborg. By giving the new life to the existing city waterfront, the project consists of a 16,900 m2 congress and hotel facility and 17,100 m2 housing. It was inspired by the city’s block structure, skewed and developed from [...]

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Shuffle – Europan 10 competition | Eriksen Skajaa Architects

Shuffle – Europan 10 competition | Eriksen Skajaa Architects

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| January 26, 2010 | 0 Comments

Eriksen Skajaa Architects, a small architecture practice run by Arild Eriksen and Joakim Skajaa has won the Europan 10 competition in Oslo with their project Shuffle. The project is exploring low rise/high density urban planning as a way to reinforce local identity, making use of passive-house concepts to shape the buildings. + Project description courtesy [...]

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4 Collective Housing Units | LAN Architecture

4 Collective Housing Units | LAN Architecture

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| January 22, 2010 | 1 Comment

LAN Architecture has won the competition for new residential area – 4 Collective Housing Units located in Bègles, France. The design for the ecological and social living space appears both modern and sculptural, it creates the diversity of architectural propositions in the urban context. + Project description courtesy of LAN Architecture A new, ecological and [...]

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Résidence étudiante & médicalisée | ECDM

Résidence étudiante & médicalisée | ECDM

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| January 11, 2010 | 0 Comments

Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) has completed a social housing for students in a suburb of Paris called Epinay. The conception of our project is from a second reading of the landscape, particularly the road of Saint leu, by integrating its history and transformations to assert its manners and qualities and to [...]

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Hanover House | Kraus Schoenberg Architects

Hanover House | Kraus Schoenberg Architects

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| November 29, 2009 | 1 Comment

Hanover House by Kraus Schoenberg Architects is the refurbishment and extension project on the rooftop of a Victorian warehouse building located in Bradford, United Kingdom. The sculptural aspect of the roof silhouette is no mere architectural fancy, but reflects the roofscape of the surrounding buildings and has been used to form the living spaces. Kraus [...]

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Model House for I’Park City | UNStudio

Model House for I’Park City | UNStudio

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| November 15, 2009 | 0 Comments

In Suwon – Korea, Dutch architectural practice UNStudio designed a showroom to exhibit the residential urban and façade design for I-Park City development which covers approximately 33.5 ha and includes 88 apartment buildings. + Project description courtesy of UNStudio The Model House for I-Park City is a showroom to exhibit the residential urban and façade [...]

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Tower 486 Mina El Hosn | LAN Architecture

Tower 486 Mina El Hosn | LAN Architecture

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| October 29, 2009 | 0 Comments

Paris practice LAN Architecture has designed a 142m high the Tower 486 Mina El Hosn, the ‘mirror-tower’ for Beirut, Lebanon. The exterior skin consists of sliding perforated sheet stainless steel panels with a mirror finish, ideally to reflect and symbolize the history and culture of the city within a heterogeneous context. The Cluster Houses materialize [...]

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